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Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by jgoyvaerts »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #21
mnd999 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The PS3 has an incredibly powerful CPU that is a a real pain to emulate. Modernretrogamer did quite an interesting Youtube piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLebZyha74o

It's surprising to me that PS3 emulation (RPCS3) is so much further along than Xbox360 emulation (Xenia). Is it just a matter of one platform getting more attention?

It's a combination of various factors. The games definitely play a role (PS3 has more exclusives, Xbox360 is mainly Halo and even that has been remastered on PC now).

Another factor is how the projects are maintained and managed. The maintainers of RPCS3 are more active and pull requests get feedback and merged relatively quickly.

On Xenia side, pull requests can remain open for months even though they should be merged, and this has caused multiple (potential) contributors to stop making pull requests.

Source: I'm a contributor on Xenia

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by rusk »

jokowueu wrote: post #22
mnd999 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The PS3 has an incredibly powerful CPU that is a a real pain to emulate. Modernretrogamer did quite an interesting Youtube piece on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLebZyha74o

I keep reading that it's difficult to emulate but the current Rpcs3 is doing great work at such a high pace https://youtu.be/MhLteF_xVi0

OMG how have I not played this game!

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by silon42 »

mschuetz wrote: post #30
kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

It's also why I didn't by consoles anymore since the PS2. The PS2 was awesome and the backwards compatibility to PS1 games got me hooked. However, I have no desire to buy 3 new consoles every 6-7 years that don't support my previous collection of old games. If the PS5 had backwards compatibility all the way to the PS1, I'd buy it in a heartbeat, but since it doesn't, I won't buy it.

How usable is PS4 without internet connection? I'd buy one (maybe used) if it is.

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by AmericanChopper »

kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

I can’t see any rationale for how it’s forced obsolescence. New consoles offer very obvious improvements over previous consoles, and they don’t prevent old consoles from working. Not offering infinite backwards compatibility with new hardware isn’t forced obsolescence.

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by fiskfiskfisk »

kuu wrote: post #5

The forced obsolescence of consoles is amazing. Now the new generation is advertising as one of their major achievements the retro-compatibility with the previous generation games, but what about PS3 or 360 games? Don't worry, you will have the option to pay again for the same game, maybe with new textures (but maybe not). At the same time, on PC I can play almost any game it has existed in PC history.

There's a pretty good list of backwards compatible 360 games that can be played on the modern Xbox consoles. Microsoft did the work in this case.

Since it's different architectures there's a bit of work involved in making sure the compatibility layer works as expected. It's a technical achievement that they've been able to do it as good as this.

There's also OG Xbox games available with a compatibility layer as well.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-backwards-compatibil...

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by m4rtink »

bsaul wrote: post #10

i keep thinking that the job of national public libraries nowaday should include archiving the web. We shouldn't rely on foundations or the goodwill of private companies to save the material future historians will work on.

The Czech National Library does that: https://www.webarchiv.cz/en/

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by robertlagrant »

mulmen wrote: post #24
keyle wrote: post #17

Sony has control over their own domain? Shocking.

This is underrated. After a 23 day outage I will never, ever, under any circumstances choose a Sony product. They're irredeemable. It astonishes me they were able to continue selling consoles. In the same way that I will never forgive Microsoft for their hostility I will also never forgive Sony for their utter incompetence.

> They're irredeemable

Or a few months later they'll have better staff and practices and it'll never happen again.

Re: Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com

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Post by mulmen »

robertlagrant wrote: post #37
mulmen wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is underrated. After a 23 day outage I will never, ever, under any circumstances choose a Sony product. They're irredeemable. It astonishes me they were able to continue selling consoles. In the same way that I will never forgive Microsoft for their hostility I will also never forgive Sony for their utter incompetence.

> They're irredeemable Or a few months later they'll have better staff and practices and it'll never happen again.

Sure. If you ignore the very topic of this thread.
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